Gnome and Xfce don't play well together
by Aaron Konstam
This happened in F15 and I thought I was just ignorant.
Now that it has happened again in F16 I realize it is a software
problem.
When Gnome is configured for a user and then the user tries to use Xfce
they find that the Xfce is corrupted in various ways. Namely:
1. when Firefox is run the top menu choices can not be used. You click
on Edit for example and you see the Edit menu, When you move the cursor
down the menu and the menu disappears.
2. Gnome display image bleeds into Xfce.
3. Evolution after awhile has the same problem as Firefox.
4. Running the Software Update program causes the update window to be so
large that you can't see the options like "Install" at the bottom of the
window,
5. You can't set up multiple workspaces.
etc., etc and so forth.
In F15 the corruptions were slightly different. Foe example the menu you
got when you clicked on the Desktop was the Gnome menu not the Xfce
menu.
Other strange things happened like you get a view of the home directory
immediately when you log in to Xfce,
It would be interesting to hear whether others have seen similar
effects.
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9 years, 3 months
Printing at 600 dpi makes everything twice as big
by Jonathan Ryshpan
When I print a page with Image Quality -> Resolution at 300 dpi
everything works fine, but when I print at Image Quality -> Resolution
at 600 dpi everything prints twice as large as it ought to with
resolution (I believe) at 300 dpi. The page that's printed shows only
the upper left quarter of the image that should be printed. I've had
this problem in the past (Fedora-15), but only with the Gimp and
Gutenprint; now it happens all the time.
System Info:
4 CPU x86_64 hardware
Fedora-16 with all updates installed
KDE 4.7.3
cups-1.5.0-22.fc16.x86_64
Brother HL1440 Printer
Default printer resolution is 300 dpi
Any suggestions?
9 years, 3 months
F16: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and MTP
by Steven F. LeBrun
Has anyone succeeded in mounting the SD Card built into the Samsung
Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Fedora?
It wants to use MTP for the USB connection and I have not found the
right combination of software to correctly mount the tablet as a file
system. The MTP mounted tablet causes RhythmBox to crash when it tries
to connect to the tablet as a music player.
I have read some information about mtpfs. Does anyone know where this
software can be found?
MTP == Media Transfer Protocol.
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* Dell XPS 15R
o 64 bit
o 8 GB
o Intell Core i5-2410M CPU
o Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230
o Intel Sandybridge Mobile
* Fedora 16
o Gnome 3
9 years, 3 months
Re: Re: Tablet Acer Iconia W500, anyone?
by Fernando Lozano
Hi,
> It's my understanding that Google has released the complete source for
the latest Android. Someone please correct if I'm wrong.
> John
Releasing the sources is not enough for me. Android is developed at
closed doors, and the source released afterwards, or not released at all,
like it happened wth 3.0 / Honeycomb. I don't know how hard is to do
something usefull with those sources. Sometimes you find "complete" sources
available but an incomplete/not documented/not automared build process, and
the sources are pretty useless without a huge effort.
Not mentioning that all android devices on the market use ARM cpus. Maybe
the current sources need significant porting effort for x86.
Current Android requires programming for their specic APIs: no X, no
LibreOffice, no Gimp, no Inkscape...
A tablet like the Acer Iconia W500 has the same specs as a current netbook,
so I could use it sometimes as a tradicional netbook and say edit ODT
documents, and sometimes as a tablet, using the touch interface for
multimedia and web browsing. It even helps that by providing a doc with
keyboard, full-size usb and vga ports. So today I could do with it things I
cannot do with a tablet.
My question is, on the tablet side, anyone has tried Fedora on the Iconia,
and found it nice to use with touch-screen only?
[]s, Fernando Lozano
9 years, 3 months
Re: Re: Tablet Acer Iconia W500, anyone?
by Fernando Lozano
Hi,
>> My question is, on the tablet side, anyone has tried Fedora on the
>> Iconia, and found it nice to use with touch-screen only?
>>
>Hi, I'm planning to buy Iconia W500 too
>since it use the AMD Fusion CPU, it can run both fedora AMD64 and x86,
>but the question is, is it possible to boot the device from another
>drive like USB CDROM, or Flash Disk?
>the specification of the device didn't say anything about the BIOS used
>in the device
This blog and its sequels have detailed instructions on installing F15 on the tablet:
http://www.entirelyunlike.net/?p=56
But it does not answer my question, about the tablet as a real tablet (under Fedora), not as a netbook.
I can't believe there's no one on this list who tried Gnome Shell 3 on any touch-enabled PC or x86 tablet. :-(
[]s, Fernando Lozano
9 years, 3 months
Help with "sudo yum update"
by Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
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Hi everybody,
I've never seen an error like this. Anybody helps?
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[Lucelio@MAQ02 ~]$ uname -r
3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64
[Lucelio@MAQ02 ~]$ sudo yum update
Plugins carregados: refresh-packagekit
Configurando o processo de atualização
Resolvendo dependências
- --> Executando verificação da transação
- ---> Package gtk2.i686 0:2.24.7-3.fc16 will be atualizado
- ---> Package gtk2.i686 0:2.24.8-2.fc16 will be an update
- ---> Package preupgrade.noarch 0:1.1.9-1.fc16 will be atualizado
- ---> Package preupgrade.noarch 0:1.1.10-1.fc16 will be an update
- --> Resolução de dependências finalizada
Error: Protected multilib versions: gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.i686 !=
gtk2-2.24.7-3.fc16.x86_64
[Lucelio@MAQ02 ~]$
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So I can't update the system.
Thanks in advance.
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ETFCSF-> U.G.F.-> P.U.C.(RJ)
Engº, Analista Suporte(Free Mind).
Email: aa.lucelio(a)gmail.com
Tel: 55 0XX 21 85964911
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9 years, 3 months
passwordless sudo
by Hiisi
Hi, list!
I'm trying to set up passwordless sudo for myself. It's a shiny brand
new fresh-installed F16. During first boot I had been asked to create
a new user and put him to administrative group. I answered yes and
hence my user is able to run commands using sudo. However in
/etc/sudoers there's not a mention of my user. I've added the
following string to it:
hiisi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Apparently it has no effect - I have to enter password each time sudo
is invoked for the first time.
What the heck and how do I solve this mystery?
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9 years, 3 months
Suddenly cups does not run on boot
by Aaron Konstam
Suddenly cups is not stared on boot on the machine that is my
printseerver. (F16)
Now when I run systems-analyze blame cups.service is not one of the
services that appears in the printout. However, systemd says the
cups.service is enabled.
If I restart the service things work again.
Where can I look to fix the problem?
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net
9 years, 3 months
